[LAD] [ann] CAPS 0.4.5

[David Robillard]

On 29/03/11 02:59 PM, Tim Goetze wrote:
> [Philipp �berbacher]
>
>    
>> Excerpts from Stefano D'Angelo's message of 2011-03-28 22:59:46 +0200:
>>      
>>> This means, if you change the port signature and maintain the same
>>> UniqueID, we would have incompatibilities in the LV2 world. If you
>>> create a new plugin or don't touch ports, instead, everything's fine.
>>>
>>> Stefano
>>>        
>> I'd say you'd even have incompatibilities in LADSPA world. Even fixes in
>> LADSPA plugins would sometimes need a new ID (This was discussed a while
>> ago regarding a LADSPA that has an unintuitive port order).
>>      
> Lacking sufficient knowledge of all the LADSPA hosts out there, I'm
> unable to judge how many will cope with the addition of a port to an
> existing plugin and how many will not.
>    

/Adding/ a port is probably fine, since hosts can just use the default 
value or connect it to silence.

However, "adding" here really means "appending": the new ports must be 
added on to the end of the ports (by index). Definitely do NOT change 
existing indices for ports, that will definitely break a lot of things 
in horrible ways! It's not even possible to properly cope with that 
situation.

Cheers,

-dr